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 | TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say |
 By RONI CARYN RABIN Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the US by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a...
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Posted by Raulken on Thursday, November 20 @ 11:33:08 CST (3 reads)
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| Avastin Drug Linked To Blood Clots |
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By Jenny Huntington Research conducted by United States scientists has revealed that the Avastin cancer drug increased the risk of developing blood clots in the veins by a third when combined with chemotherapy, the mainstay treatment for cancer...
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Posted by Raulken on Thursday, November 20 @ 06:36:06 CST (1 reads)
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| FDA Panel Wants More Warnings On Wrinkle Fillers |
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By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN WASHINGTON -- Product labels on popular cosmetic wrinkle fillers should be strengthened to warn consumers about scarring and other problems that can crop up weeks or years after receiving the treatments, a Food and Drug...
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Posted by Raulken on Thursday, November 20 @ 05:33:44 CST (1 reads)
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| Medicare drug plan switch can save money |
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About 30000 people in Santa Cruz County rely on Medicare for prescription drug coverage, and almost all of them will be affected by rate hikes and plan changes that take effect Jan. 1. People can save hundreds to thousands of dollars a year by...
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Posted by Raulken on Thursday, November 20 @ 05:33:41 CST (1 reads)
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| Adrian Kantrowitz; Performed First US Heart Transplant |
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By Patricia Sullivan Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, a doctor who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States and developed numerous medical devices that helped save thousands of heart patients, died of complications from congestive heart...
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Posted by Raulken on Thursday, November 20 @ 03:34:04 CST (2 reads)
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| Science and Technology Results of landmark statin study revealed |
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In one of the hottest medical findings in the current year, the JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Primary Prevention: An Intervention Trial Evaluating Rosuvastatin) Trial showed that statins could cut the risk of heart attack,...
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Posted by Raulken on Wednesday, November 19 @ 23:34:32 CST (3 reads)
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| FDA opens office in China |
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By Elizabeth Dalziel, AP By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY BEIJING - As Americans consume more food prepared outside the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration opened its first overseas office Wednesday in China with others planned around the...
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Posted by Raulken on Wednesday, November 19 @ 20:34:05 CST (3 reads)
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| Obama signals priority with Daschle pick |
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By Jeff Mason and Caren Bohan CHICAGO (Reuters) - US President-elect Barack Obama selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary on Wednesday, while former President Bill Clinton took steps to help secure his wife the...
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Posted by Raulken on Wednesday, November 19 @ 17:32:40 CST (2 reads)
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| Is red meat's bad name justified? |
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In December, a survey of more than 494000 people by the National Institutes of Health found that men who ate more than 5 ounces of red meat each day and women who ate more than 3 ounces had a 51% greater risk of esophageal cancer, 61% of liver cancer...
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Posted by Raulken on Wednesday, November 19 @ 16:33:31 CST (1 reads)
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| Genentech disputes new Avastin research data |
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(11-18) 17:43 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Genentech's blockbuster cancer drug Avastin is linked to a significantly increased risk of blood clots in the veins, said a team of university researchers whose conclusions were quickly challenged by the big...
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Posted by Raulken on Wednesday, November 19 @ 08:35:13 CST (1 reads)
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| Wednesday, November 19 | | · | ALA urges stop to smoking during Great American Smokeout |
| · | Woman gets first trachea transplant without drugs |
| · | Beverly Hospital shelves plan to close natural birthing center |
| · | Frozen food recalled after plastic found |
| Tuesday, November 18 | | · | State Tries to Save Obstetrics at a Hospital in Brooklyn |
| · | Primary care doctors in short supply |
| · | Beverly birth center to remain open |
| · | Wrinkle Fillers Need New Warnings, US Panel Says (Update1) |
| · | Lawmakers call for bisphenol A ban |
| · | Contempt Order Vacated, But Case Not Closed |
| · | Fertility treatments linked to certain birth defects |
| Monday, November 17 | | · | IN THE STATES: How Soon is Now? |
| · | Cuomo Investigating Colleges’ Deals with Health Insurers |
| · | Picking a Medicare drug plan |
| · | Hospital Flooded in Storm to Cut Its Staff by a Third |
| · | Vitamin C, E Supplements No Good in Reducing Cancer Risk |
| · | Vitamin C, E Supplements Won't Help Prevent Cancer |
| Sunday, November 16 | | · | Economic Crisis Boils Democratic Message Down to Jobs |
| Saturday, November 15 | | · | Medicare Moves |
| Friday, November 14 | | · | Enrollment for Medicare Drug Plans Begins Again |
| · | Wrinkle Fillers Linked to `Serious' Side Effects, (Update3) |
| · | Regents say layoffs designed to save UTMB |
| · | Skyrocketing premiums looming for many with Medicare Part D |
| Thursday, November 13 | | · | Nearly 2000 Carrying HIV In Chile Were Not Notified |
| · | Claims of HIV Cure by BMT Greeted With Caution |
| · | Fact and Comment |
| · | Chronically Ill US Patients Often Skip Care Due to Costs |
| · | Bad air costing state's economy billions |
| · | Senate Finance Chairman Calls for Mandatory Health Insurance |
| · | Same-sex heart transplants have better outcomes, study finds |
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